The Toronto Symphony Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 887967248RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($5,265,635) as filed with the CRA.
The Toronto Symphony Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $5.3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 36% from government. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4.9M in 2024, the largest being $4.9M to The Toronto Symphony. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $5.3M | — | — | $4.9M | $69.4M |
| 2023 | $19M | $3.5M | — | — | $3.2M | $63.5M |
| 2022 | $373K | $3.2M | — | — | $2.9M | $48.1M |
| 2021 | $10.9M | $1.2M | — | — | $886K | $50.9M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2M | — | — | $1.6M | $41.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.9M to 1 qualified donee:
- The Toronto Symphony$4.9M
Received $3M from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeanine Lichong (chair); Neal Kerr (vice chair); Catherine Beck (ex-officio trustee); Peter Hinman (ex-officio trustee); Natalie Ochrym (trustee); Cathy Carlin (trustee); Blackwell Owen (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Toronto Symphony Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887967248RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.